To clone the the Parrot Git repo into a directory called 'parrot', use the following:

git clone git://github.com/parrot/parrot.git

If you want it to be in a directory other than 'parrot', then just give that as a second
argument to clone:

git clone git://github.com/parrot/parrot.git parrot_foo

Parrot 3.5.0 News:

- Core
+ Parrot_PMC_destroy, Parrot_PMC_mark and Parrot_PMC_invoke were removed from
the public extension API.
+ PAST now has PAST::Stmt node types, supports reusable temporary registers.
+ Test coverage of the embedding and extending interface is now at least 95%.
+ A snapshot of Winxed is now included in Parrot core to facilitate writing
core Parrot tools from a higher level language than PIR.
- Languages
+ Winxed
- Improved compile time scope search.
- Added 'using namespace' statement.
- Compiler classes and functions now live in the Winxed;Compiler namespace.
- Tests
+ The Parrot test suite harness now understands the HARNESS_TIMER environment
variable. Setting it to a true value will show timing results for a test run.
+ IPv6 tests are now parallel testing friendly.